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In reply to the discussion: UPDATED 3 X: Obamacare wins [View all]no_hypocrisy
(46,242 posts)Even as Republicans rose in a chorus of outrage Thursday over the U.S. Supreme Courts refusal to gut the unpopular Affordable Care Act, party leaders were privately breathing a sigh of relief.
Had the court gone the other way, Republicans would have faced their most serious governing challenge since taking control of both houses of Congress earlier this year.
Former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie called it a bad legal outcome, but a good political outcome for Republicans. But he added that it will increase pressure on his party to come up with a specific alternative to the law ahead of the 2016 elections.
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